#1 | | 4 | 2 reads | |
#2 | The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women | 4.19 | 178 reads | |
#3 |  Japan Japan: Its History and Culture - W. Scott Morton
- J. Kenneth Olenik
| 4 | 2 reads | |
#4 | In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette | 4.5 | 30 reads | |
#5 | The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966 | 4.33 | 3 reads | |
#6 | The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation | 4 | 1 read | |
#7 | | 4 | 6 reads | |
#8 | | 3.67 | 3 reads | |
#9 | In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End | 2 | 1 read | |
#10 | | 4 | 1 read | |
#11 | Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night | 4.26 | 33 reads | |
#12 | | 3.53 | 40 reads | |
#13 | The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books | 3.5 | 2 reads | |
#14 | This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together | 3.83 | 6 reads | |
#15 | The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary | 3.85 | 124 reads | |
#16 | | 3.82 | 35 reads | |
#17 | Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition | 4.57 | 9 reads | |
#18 | The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo - Tom Reiss
- Gabriel Stoian (Translator)
| 3.73 | 38 reads | |
#19 | The Woman Who Smashed Codes | 4.3 | 27 reads | |
#20 | Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster | 4.44 | 122 reads | |
#21 | First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers | 4.19 | 31 reads | |
#22 | | 4.13 | 51 reads | |
#23 | The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial by Combat in Medieval France | 3 | 1 read | |
#24 | | 2.57 | 9 reads | |
#25 | Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement | 3.2 | 9 reads | |
#26 | Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything | 3.52 | 29 reads | |
#27 | Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk | 4.5 | 5 reads | |
#28 | Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague | 3.6 | 5 reads | |
#29 | | 3.94 | 177 reads | |
#30 | | 4.04 | 32 reads | |
#31 | Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town | 4.27 | 12 reads | |
#32 | Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic | 3.75 | 2 reads | |
#33 | Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World | 3.82 | 16 reads | |
#34 | Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage | 4.48 | 185 reads | |
#35 | First, They Erased Our Name: a Rohingya Speaks | 5 | 1 read | |
#36 | | 4.13 | 106 reads | |
#37 | | 3.5 | 10 reads | |
#38 | | 5 | 1 read | |
#39 | Samurai Wisdom Stories: Tales from the Golden Age of Bushido | 3.75 | 2 reads | |
#40 | Erebus: The Story of a Ship | 3.98 | 25 reads | |